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Sarah Popowski describes a trip to Israel to visit the Yad Vashem memorial in 2001.
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Sarah Popowski describes how her mother and aunt obtained forged documents to enable them to hide in Warsaw, Poland under assumed identities to escape the Holocaust.
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Sarah Popowski describes how her mother and aunt were able to escape detection by Nazis through demonstrating a knowledge of Catholicism. She also relates the death of her grandparents in Kaluszyn,…
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Sarah Popowski describes how her mother made the decision to leave her village and go to a labor camp as a volunteer rather than be rounded up by the Nazis.
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Sarah Popowski describes what life was like for her mother in a Nazi labor camp in Poland and the cruel policies of the guards. Content Warning: This clip contains a description of violence against a…
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Sarah Popowski describes how her mother and aunt were helped by some Catholic nuns and the owner of a glass factory.
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Sarah Popowski describes how her mother got onto a transport to a labor camp in order to avoid deportation from her village by the Nazis.
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Sarah Popowski describes how she first came to learn about her family's Holocaust experience.
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Susan Berman discusses her uncle taking a boat out to try and see his family on the St. Louis while it was anchored in Miami.
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Susan Berman describes the kind of work her family did upon arriving in the United States, as well as what they did to try and bring over other family members still in Europe.
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Susan describes how her aunt met her uncle Ruby who was a musician for the USO.
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Susan Berman discusses how her family received information while living in Nazi Germany.
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Susan discusses how her family members were able to board the St. Louis to try and flee Nazi Germany.
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Susan discusses what her mother experienced during Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, that happened in Nazi Germany in November of 1938.
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Susan Berman discusses how her mother was able to be a part of the Kindertransport that sent Jewish children to Great Britain.
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Susan Berman discusses her family's reaction to the rise of Nazism and Adolf Hitler in Germany and if they wanted to leave the country or not.
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